When trust grows, communities thrive.
We Believe
Trust is the invisible infrastructure of everyday life — the quiet force that holds communities together.
Social Trust
Social trust as a democratic tool and foundation for equity
When trust weakens, distance grows. Disagreement becomes division. Division turns into polarization. And soon, we forget how to work together.
Without trust, we default to competition instead of collaboration — to winning arguments instead of solving problems. We lose the collective intelligence that allows societies to evolve.
Our Solution
The Collective Intelligence Platform
We have been developing a methodology to map social trust at the local scale, to be able to see differentiated patterns of social trust across neighborhoods, probe for insights underlying those patterns, and to identify “hotspots” that may be contributing to undermining trust. Our platform shows us where social trust matters, why it matters, and how to build it. In doing so, it transforms social trust from an elusive abstraction to a practical place-based strategy.
A platform for insight — a springboard for action
The Trust Here Collective Intelligence Platform turns trust from an idea into an instrument — measurable, actionable, and visible where it matters most.
From Measurement to Movement
The Trust Here Collective Intelligence Platform shows where trust matters, why it matters, and how to build it to become a key governance metric.
Measurement Granularity
Granularity by providing insights and operational directions at the neighborhood level.
Action Orientation
Where others diagnose or advocate, our platform is designed for interventions.
Integration of Data + Human Insight
Combines AI, quantitative indicators, and frontline social sensing.
Democratic Renewal Goal
Explicitly positions trust as a governance metric, not just an academic or corporate indicator.
City Managers
From concept to capability
When trust is high, everything works better — economies, communities, and democracies alike.
Trust Here operationalizes trust at the local level. Using leading-edge social science and human-centered technology, we help cities and communities see how trust works locally — and how to strengthen it through concrete action.
We help cities and communities design for connection — through data, dialogue, and shared action. By making trust measurable, we make it manageable. And when trust is managed well, people, places, and possibilities grow together.
About Us
Meet The Team
We at Trust Here work with more than developing a platform — we are building a movement for people working to strengthen trust together. We are deliberately scaling the infrastructure behind social trust — so that every city, community, and civic leader can measure it, understand it, and act on it.
Our goal is to make social trust a core democratic indicator, as fundamental as GDP or public safety.
